Auros transforming the way knowledge is captured, shared, and reused

Auros in the Ship Building Industry

Shipyards continue to face the challenges of escalating costs associated with designing, building, operating, and maintaining government and commercial assets over their life-cycle. At the same time, ships are becoming more complex with advancing technologies, increasing regulations and requirements, and restricting design strategies. Today, engineers must look at the entire system, beyond the typical functional design boundaries, and address an expanding, interrelating complexity of systems within systems; whose boundaries continue to broaden with unintended consequences and challenges. They must balance increased requirements to optimize the design across Systems Engineering disciplines.

Shipyard time studies documented only 16% of the shipyard engineer’s time was spent on “value-added” activities. A significant portion of the engineer’s time is spent trying to locate, manage, filter, vet, and validate useful information. Today’s engineers are faced with an expanded complexity of systems, increased requirements, schedule constraints, and the challenge of ensuring design productivity. To deliver, the designer or engineer relies on standards and input buried in manuals, scattered among excel spreadsheets, individual files, and hiding in the minds and experience of their peers. As a result, recurring mistakes are made, resulting in schedule delays, rework, increased costs, and missed design optimization opportunities. Taking a passive approach to knowledge management and delivery in the ship design process fails to support the complex needs of our shipbuilding programs and introduces significant financial and schedule risk.

Like most organizations, you strive to operate more efficiently and effectively, but your time is consumed putting out the fires, dealing with setbacks, and solving current problems. So how are these challenges overcome? With the help of Auros software and services, our customers are able to resolve their problems by transforming the way their knowledge is captured, shared, and reused.

Notable Auros Customers

Testimonies

“The search-ability by K-PAC elements is exactly what we’ve been dreaming about here for years.”

“We use a lot of different software, but Auros is one that is actually valuable.”

What is the Knowledge Aware Approach?

The Knowledge Aware approach is a coherent and comprehensive enterprise-level Knowledge Management strategy and technique. Unlike traditional knowledge management strategies, the Knowledge Aware approach activates knowledge in the flow-of-work. With it, knowledge is continuously being captured from standards, best practices, lessons learned, methods, techniques, requirements, employee knowledge, and other resources, broken down into digestible bite-sized pieces, and provisioned to the right person when and where it’s needed. This approach positively influences decision-making, which creates a more effective and efficient organization and more reliable outputs.

Featured Auros Capabilities Specific for Ship Building

Auros helps make this transition less painful by blending standard work and knowledge into the agile concept. By blending these two concepts, organizations can achieve the benefits of Agile with the predictability of standardized processes.

See How Auros Works in a Live Demo

Our customers have adopted the Auros software to help with several of their major industry challenges, including: warranty issues, maintaining consistent quality, engineering efficiency, retiring workforce, loss of intellectual capital, and training new hires. To learn how your organization can benefit from Auros, like they did, schedule a complimentary demo of the Auros system.